I seem to recall that wwdc videos were a for pay feature in previous years (I was at wwdc 07, 09). But what's interesting about this is that this year I went to google I/o which is in it's 3rd year, had 5k+ attendees and it goes without saying that google would release all the videos for free.

Apple is feeling the pressure of competition.

Apple would do well to drop the $99/year dev tax as well (I'd consider paying to be in their market, but paying to just developer for my own hardware seems off).

Eh. Call it a bozo filter. The dev forums are quite filled with people but they are all actually discussing. I can't remember ever seeing spam.

Right. I'd rather they increase the subscription fee.

I was serious.

Yeah, I think Apple wants to quickly get its developers up to speed on all the new iOS features before the iPhone 4 launch.

Exactly, and this is clearly an example of consumers (us) benefiting from their competition.

I applaud this move by DTS and look forward to watching the videos.

Overwhelmed by traffic now. I don't think Apple has yet absorbed just how big it is: the iPod explosion didn't affect the dev side of the company, which subconsciously still has Mac assumptions in place.

This isn't "102: Moving from CodeWarrior to Project Builder" any more, Toto.

1) Log in (or create an apple account) 2) download from itunes

i guess providing video over the internet is hard for apple (especially using html5, that they grandstand from the stage)

Funny, they actually timeout your authorization after a fairly short time. I downloaded a bunch when this was first posted, then went back to grab one more and got redirected to the sign-in page, then got rejected due to heavy traffic.

At least something good came out of Apple-Google rivalry.

Doesn't something good come out of most corporate rivalries?

Yeah consumer usually wins ;-)

Apple and a true monopoly such as the US Postal Service could not be more different.

I'm curious: Was this facetious? or were you serious?

If you don't assume that he's talking about Apple (or, for that matter, Google), which is implied in neither his, nor the parent post, then he's entirely correct and the downvotes are totally unwarranted.

What’s the connection between monopolies and corporate rivalries? That comment just doesn’t make any sense.

People are talking about corporate rivalries as a special case of free market competition. Price wars and innovation races benefit the consumer in these cases.

In the case of a monopoly a potential corporate rival gets bought and shut down, or locked out of a market, or has their price undercut until they go out of business and then the price goes back up even further to compensate. Basically the consumer loses.

So corporate rivalry, no matter how fierce, is great for the consumer as long as both are forced to fight fair.

Are you arguing that monopolies don't hurt consumers? There's valid arguments that could be advanced in that direction but since we live in a world where the common understanding is that monopolies are bad for consumers, it would be helpful if you were less oblique about your meaning.

Mentioning monopolies in the context of the benefits of competition doesn't seem irrelevant to me, quite the opposite, and perhaps as a result I didn't immediately jump to the conclusion that it was an attack on Apple or Google or anyone else.

Uhm, no. That’s not what I said at all. Monopolies are bad but companies competing against a monopolist won’t make it worse.

I think it's the monopolist "competing" against the other companies that we're worried about. Where by competing I mean doing all those things I listed a few posts back that reduce consumer choice and competition in the marketplace.

Sure, but that’s not surprising. Isn’t it obvious that the concept of “competition” doesn’t make much sense when talking about a monopolist? And it’s also obvious that it would be stupid if the monopolist didn’t try to crush any possible emerging competition. It’s logical, it’s obvious, it’s not worth mentioning.

It was a serious, honest answer to a question that was in hindsight probably not a serious, honest question. (Certainly the pattern of votes indicates that it was not interpreted as such.) ZeroGravitas has done a fine job of explaining the reasoning behind my answer.

A surprisingly (and unfortunately) large number of people seem to think that having a large market share of something is a monopoly.

Other the tons of stories about it here, what bad has come out of it? Competitions like these are always good.

There's a ton of sessions... can anyone recommend which are not to be missed?

Application Frameworks: "Designing Apps with Scroll Views" (awesome thought process of engineering UI code)

iPad and iPhone User Interface Design (excellent design principles and examples)

Advanced Performance Optimization on iPhone OS, Part 1&2 (tips and tricks galore)

Using the Camera with AV Foundation (What FaceTime is built on)

Can't find it yet - but: Building dynamic server-driven user interfaces

> Can't find it yet - but: Building dynamic server-driven user interfaces

There are slides for Session 117 - Building a Server-driven User Experience under Application Frameworks, but no video posted.

The multitasking ones were very helpful.

If you're wondering what Xcode 4 will be like, skim through the Developer Tools State of the Union slides.

FYI, the videos are generally the video-out of the Keynote presentations with a voiceover. So the HD versions are not particularly worthwhile IMO, and the files are really pretty small. Random ones include video of the stage though, so those are massively larger.

I thought the sessions were under NDA. Only for a week?

The sessions are under NDA until such a time as Apple decides to release their content - this is mostly a formality, so that they can have their preview, but still have an official release later. This is what happened with both Safari5 and Xcode 4 after the presentations.

The sessions are still under NDA: they've added a reminder to the front page.

They are still under NDA.

From the link: "Reminder: The content presented within the WWDC 2010 session videos and slides is Apple Confidential Information and is subject to the Registered Apple Developer Agreement."

I thought they were too. After logging in, I see I can download over 200 hours of presentations from WWDC 2010 in iTunes.

Your Apple developer account came with an NDA in the terms and conditions.

Yeah, I guess this is "information disclosed in connection with Apple Events" which makes it "Apple Confidential Information". Since you need a developer account to access it, it is not available to the public which would remove the Confidential part.

Could anyone post the list of session titles for the curious without an Apple developer account?

You can create a free account.

This seems to involve handing out my name/address/phone/company and that's only step 1 of 4.

Yes I'm being an awkward git but I hope you understand.

And giving you information on them if you're not a registered developer would involve whoever is doing it breaking a NDA.

Forget it then. Good day everyone.

Use fake information.

Honestly, I'd do it but there are like 220 and no obvious way to get a list out of iTunes.

Any recommendations of good talks? A session number is enough info to avoid breaking the NDA.